Re: Eric Rescorla's Discuss on draft-ietf-hip-native-nat-traversal-28: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

Christer Holmberg <[email protected]> Sun, 6 May 2018 17:19:58 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.hipsec,gmane.ietf.hip
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

> I am very familiar with ICE and yet I found this document extremely hard to follow. The problem is that it cherry-picks pieces 
> of ICE and I'm just not sure that it's a complete specification when put all together. I have noted a number of places where I 
> actually am not sure how to implement something, and fixing those will resolve this DISCUSS, but IMO you really should totally 
> rewrite this document either (a) as a variant of ICE or (b) as an entirely new document not with a pile of new text and then 
> references out to ICE sections.

I haven't been involved in the work on this draft, so I may be wrong, but I did review the document and my understanding is that RFC 5770 is the "variant of ICE", and this document is a modification/extension to RFC 5770.

Regards,

Christer